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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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At 09:22 AM 2/15/2003 -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
>On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>>I gave this a burn, and under hefty load it seems to provide a bit of
>>anti-thrash benefit.
>
>Judging from your log, it ends up stalling kswapd and
>dramatically increases the number of times that normal
>processes need to go into the pageout code.
>
>If this provides an anti-thrashing benefit, something's
>wrong with the VM in 2.5 ;)

Which number are you looking at?

         -Mike

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